28. Trevor Sutton - The Coach House 2

2020
Oil on paper collage on Corian
10 x 15 cm
Signed on Verso

Trevor Sutton is a non-figurative painter and printmaker whose work frequently references the architecture of specific structures, often modest rural farm buildings or urban industrial façades. Through the use of grids, geometric formations and intuitive colour relationships, Sutton creates compositions that generate shifting rhythms and patterns, suggesting a form of visual music. Working across oil paint, collage and watercolour, his practice balances formal abstraction with subtle architectural and environmental references.

Sutton studied at the Hornsey College of Art between 1967 and 1971, before completing a Higher Diploma at Birmingham Polytechnic between 1971 and 1972.

Selected solo exhibitions include Light Year at Sleeper and Time of Day at Eagle Gallery (2015); Assembly & Image at Class Room and Wonder Mist at Cairn Gallery (2017); Memories at Concept Space (2018); PLACE at Zuleika Gallery (2019); Small World at Zuleika Gallery (2021); Blue Lightning at Cairn Gallery (2022); and Hidden Architecture at postRoom (2025).

Recent collaborative exhibitions with Carol Robertson include CIRCUS at The Revelator (2024), Heaven, Earth and Human Beings at Grey Gallery (2024), and TEN at ZEMBLA (2025).

His work has been included in major group exhibitions including the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (2021, 2023, 2024 and 2025), Rhythm & Geometry: Constructivist Art in Britain since 1951 at the Sainsbury Centre (2021), and exhibitions in France, Germany, Ireland, Iceland and Japan.

Awards and distinctions include the Sir Whitworth Wallis Award First Prize (1972), the Arts Council Award (1976), the John Moores Exhibition 12 Prize (1980), the South Bank Banner Competition Prize (1997), a Research Fellowship at Chelsea College of Art & Design (2000–03), a Fellowship at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation (2001), and an Artist Residency at Kunstgarten (2012).

Sutton’s work is held in numerous public and corporate collections, including the Tate, Cleveland Museum of Art, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Arts Council England, Contemporary Art Society, Government Art Collection, Pallant House Gallery, Victoria Art Gallery and collections belonging to Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and Unilever.